Blogs

On this International Youth Day, Practical Action’s Suman Chapagain reminds us that resilience is built not simply by protecting young people, but by empowering them with knowledge, technology, and partnerships to become leaders of climate resilience.

Post-event reviews of the 2025 storms and floods in Vietnam have found that community adaptation practices are reaching their limit when faced with intensifying climate hazards.

As El Niño intensifies, evidence from across the Amazon basin shows why Amazon wildfire prevention depends on Indigenous knowledge and fire governance built from the territories up.

To build resilience to climate hazards,  practitioners are shifting to implementing systems change-oriented  programmes that sustainably reduce hazard vulnerability at scale.

To prepare Bangladesh for the increasing impacts of climate hazards, shifting from traditional single-hazard approaches to more integrated strategies is urgent.

At the Bonn Climate Conference – an important milestone on the road to COP31 – negotiators struggled to make progress on key questions concerning adaptation finance, while getting funds to local institutions and communities is needed more than ever. New insights from the Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance highlight practical pathways for strengthening locally led adaptation […]

This year, El Niño has already been declared, with a particularly severe event predicted. Here, we look at what impact it will have and how Practical Action is helping communities prepare for it.

New global analysis by the Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance and the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre (RCCC) shows that heat Early Warning Systems are expanding rapidly worldwide, but also remain highly diverse. 

Across CBA20 sessions, one message stood out clearly: locally led adaptation must become the norm, and that can only be achieved through significant shifts in power, financing, and knowledge systems.